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Same income. One school costs $4,478 a year.
Another costs $32,766.

Sticker price tells you nothing. College Compass shows your student's real admit odds and what families at your income actually paid at 5,498 colleges — then tells you the one thing to do next. Five minutes to start. $99 for the season.

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Measured · federal data Income-band prices · NPT4 Conflict-free · paid by parents

Illustrations use one real profile — GPA 3.7, SAT 1320, a measured-rigor NJ high school. The $4,478 and $32,766 are what families earning $75–110k actually paid at Princeton and NYU, per federal College Scorecard reporting.

What you get

Nine questions. Five minutes.

From the intake — which high school?
Ridgewood High School — Ridgewood, NJrigor 86 · measured
The Pingry School — Basking Ridge, NJrigor 93 · school-reported

Odds that show their math.

Why 68% — every point auditable
Published acceptance rate58
GPA 3.7 vs 3.5 typical admit+6.8
SAT 1320 vs ~1375 median−6.9
School rigor 86 · measured+5.9
Early Decision+5.0

Prices for your income — not the average.

Rutgers — at your band ($48–75k)
Sticker price$61,000 / yr
Families at your band paid$21,800 / yr
Princeton, same band$1,217 / yr
Browse 200 schools' real prices by income →

An advisor that names the one next thing.

The advisor's note — rewritten as the plan changes

Maya's list holds 2 likely admits against a floor of three, and the first deadline is Nov 1. One move fixes it.

In spring: award letters decodedgifts vs loans
Most families who skip the FAFSA assume they earn too much (NCES) — the honest comparison
Free tools (Niche, CollegeVine…)College Compass
Who pays themColleges recruiting your studentYou. $99, once
The price shownSticker, or the all-family averageYour income band's real number
Your student's dataThe product being soldNever sold, never shared
Earning above $110k? Different question, same five minutes

Make too much for aid? Then the question is what you'd borrow.

Above $110k the federal discounts thin out — at most state schools your price is close to sticker, and this site will say so to your face, school by school. What doesn't disappear: merit aid (income-blind, estimated per school), and the gap between what you'd comfortably pay and four years of the real total. The plan turns every school into that one number — and the monthly payment it implies — before anyone falls in love with a campus.

The affordability read — every school gets one.

Rutgers at $110–150k · comfort line $25,000/yr
Your comfort line, four years$105,375
Rutgers, four years$147,533
Gap — would be borrowed$42,158
≈ monthly after graduation$556 /mo · 10 yrs

Modeled at Parent PLUS terms. A number a family can veto — that's the point.

The price
$99 / student season Start free
Auditable admit odds + income-band prices, 5,498 collegesincluded
ED/EA strategy, deadlines, the advisor's note all seasonincluded
Spring award-letter decoding — gifts vs loansincluded
$99 once. No subscription, no auto-renew, no card required to start. Try it properly first — your first three schools with real numbers, free. Pay only when the plan has already earned it. No college pays us
Fair questions
How accurate are the admit estimates?+
Planning signals, not predictions — anchored to each school's published rate, moved point by point, shown as an honest range. Thin data widens the range and says so.
Where do the prices come from?+
Federal reporting — colleges report average net price by income band. Share your band once; every school shows that number, labeled with its source.
We make too much for financial aid — is this still useful?+
It was built by a parent in exactly that spot. Above $110k the discounts mostly disappear — and the app says so to your face, school by school, instead of teasing aid that isn't coming. What you get instead: merit likelihood (income-blind), the four-year gap between your comfort line and each school's real total, and the monthly payment that gap implies. The full answer, with numbers →
Is my student's information sold or shared?+
Never. No college pays us for placement, recruitment, or data. The award letters you upload in spring are decoded in your browser and never leave your device. Our entire business is the $99.

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